Home Office

Home Office: Freedom of Information

Kirsty Blackman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours her Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.

Karen Bradley: The number of hours spent on this activity in the Home Office is not separately identifiable.

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Consultants

Mr Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.

Andrew Selous: The policy evaluations which have been carried out by external organisations for the Ministry of Justice and the National Offender Management Service since 2010/11 are listed in the accompanying table. Information is also provided on whether the output was published, the name of the organisation which carried out the work and the value of the contract.The published policy evaluation reports can be found on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=research-and-analysis&topics%5b%5d=all&departments%5b%5d=ministry-of-justice&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5b%5d=all&from_date=&to_date



Costs of Policy Evaluations 2010-2014
(Excel SpreadSheet, 39.5 KB)

Secure Training Centres: Contracts

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria were used to award the contracts for running Rainsbrook and Medway secure training centres.

Andrew Selous: Tenders to run Rainsbrook and Medway secure training centres were evaluated using a standard approach balancing quality and price. This included criteria relating to the quality of proposals for custodial services, property and facilities management, mobilisation and ICT.